‘If Europe opens its gates to Muslims, there will be beheadings here’
GDANSK – It was difficult to know whether Lech Walesa was cynical, joking or dead serious. Maybe all of the above.
His direct approach to, and simplistic views of, a complicated international reality can embarrass the listener.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the former president of the Polish Republic – a Nobel Prize laureate, who co-founded Solidarity, contributed to the collapse of the Soviet bloc and became an icon of liberty and freedom – can allow himself to be his country’s enfant terrible.
And it seems that he enjoys this position. His answers to our questions solidified his image as an ardent Catholic and a conservative homophobe who opposes the absorption of immigrants, doesn’t appreciate US President Barack Obama and has an amusing solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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